Chap.' 6, AnExpofition upon the Bookof J OB. Verf 6. 239 J 0 B, C H A Pd 16 Verf.6, 7, 8, 9, Io, I I. Though If+7ealt, tray grief is not affwaged : and though I forbear, what amleafed? Butnow he bath made me weary : thou baji made defolate all my company. And thou haft filledme with wrinkles , which is a witnefs againff me: andmy leannefs riing up in me,beareth witnefs to myface. He teareth me in his wrath,who hateth me : begnafheth upon me withhis teeth, mine enemyfharpneth his eyes upon me. They have gaped upon me with their mouth, they have [mitten me upon the cheek reproachfully, they havegathered themfelves together againfi me. God bathdeliveredme to the ungodly , and turned me over to the hands of the wicked. IN the five former Verfes of this Chapter; j ob reproved the perfonal failings of his friends towards him s he now en- ters upon the confutation of their opinion. This is the con- tlant method, bothof Job and his friends s they never come to the matter till they have fallen npon the man s nor touch the opinion, till they have dealt with the perfori. And this is the tenour of moil mens fpirits, to this day , in difputes and controvertes s and force do not only deal with the man be- fore the matter,but lofe the matter in dealing with the man, entangling, and engaging themfelves fo much in perfonal quarrels, that they forget , or defert the DoCrinal Quarrel.. lob and his friends , though they were too mindful of the former, ¡yet they did not forget the latter, and here job ad- dreffeshimfelf unto it. Yet before he enters upon the [late of the Queflion, he lets forth his own [late, and thews how it was with him s granting ( which Eliphaz had made the ground of his accufation j that he was in an extremely affAi- dfed condition, yet denying what he from thence inferred, that he was therefore wicked, or continued knowingly in any linfulcourfe. He defcribes his afflictions with much variety of Argument and Elocution, to the- feventeenth Verle,
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